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These Weeknight-Friendly Mediterranean-Inspired Recipes Are Packed with Veggies
From chickpea stew to orzo salad, these veggie packed, Mediterranean-inspired recipes are sure to make you feel good any night of the week.
The New Guide to Shopping at the Farmers Market
Here are some tips to make navigating farmers’ markets simple and fun!
How to Make Frozen Vegetables Taste Phenomenal
Frozen veggies are a freezer staple. They’re healthy and cheap and they can taste just as great as fresh veggies if you know how to cook them. Here’s how to make your frozen vegetables taste phenomenal.
How to Love Your Greens, For People Who On the Fence About Vegetables
If you’re health-conscious but haven’t quite grown out of your “I hate broccoli” stage, it can feel like a constant battle to eat enough vegetables. If this is you, you’re not alone. When you’re starting to eat more vegetables — especially if your diet’s been short on them — it can be challenging on your tastebuds.
5 Awesome Meat-Free Grilling Recipes
We love a smoky grilled piece of meat, fish or chicken as much as anyone, but vegetables enjoy just as prominent a place on our grates. Whether you’re a full-time vegetarian or just looking for summer grilling inspiration, here are some tasty and healthy dishes to light your fire.
4 People on How to Get Enough Veggies on Keto
If you’re trying keto and struggling with veggies, you’re not alone. It’s not always easy being green with this particular diet.
Want to Eat More Vegetables Every Day? Here’s the Secret
News flash: Most of us could stand to eat more vegetables. Loaded with nutrients, they help with everything from energy, to disease fighting, to metabolism, glowing skin, etc. In the food world, most experts agree that vegetables are the MVP.
4 Simple & Natural Ways to Fight Off Breast Cancer
It’s October, and that sea of pink you see is a good reminder how important it is to stay vigilant in the fight against breast cancer.
Yes, You Can DIY Vegetable Broth
Making your own broth can seem more complicated than it is. In fact, it’s incredibly easy and pays huge dividends in taste.
2 Easy Ways to Feel Better Today
There’s no end of complicated diets, juice fasts and other plans promising to help you feel your best. But sometimes the simplest approach is the recipe for success.
Garlic Mashed Butternut Squash
With more flavor, color, and nutrition, a lower glycemic index, and plenty of garlic, this mashed potato-like recipe is a great alternative to “regular” mashers.
Roasted Carrots and Parsnips with Garlic, Citrus, and Sage
Roasted root vegetables are an ideal winter side dish, and when they become brown and caramelized, they have a sweetness that can satisfy your sugar cravings. Usually, it’s plenty to toss them with just olive oil, salt, and pepper, but when you want a bit more, this is your dish. The citrus adds brightness, the sage adds softness, and when are whole roasted garlic cloves not a good thing?
Sautéed Shaved Brussels Sprouts with Shallots and Almonds
Brussels sprouts can be a bit bitter—I think that’s why some people don’t like them. But here, any bitterness is countered with lemon juice, fresh dill, and toasted almonds. The result is a really good, completely health-conscious vegetable dish. Even if you haven’t liked Brussels sprouts before, you’re in for a pleasant surprise.
5 Ways to Detox Your Liver (That Don’t Involve Not Drinking)
Most of us don’t think about our liver much, except as a punchline after a night of too much wine. But detoxing is a hot topic, and the two go hand in hand.
3 Vegetable Noodle Dishes You’ll Love
Zoodles get all the Instagram love, but you can make noodles out of lots of vegetables—and you don’t even need an expensive spiralizer. A regular vegetable peeler or julienne peeler can help you create lovely noodle-esque strands of vegetables that are enjoyable raw or very lightly cooked, full of nutrients and free of empty carbs.
Going Ketogenic? These Keto Vegetables Can Help!
There’s no question that the ketogenic diet is generating lots of buzz (just search for #keto on Instagram; you’ll see nearly 4 million entries). Put simply, a well-designed keto diet is a sustainable eating plan that helps people free themselves from carbohydrate dependency.
5 New Healthy Products: Volume 18
This week we discovered powerhouse teas, addictive organic baking mixes, tasty nut milks, patriotic looking chips, and green lunch bags.
The Truth About The Alkaline Diet
Should you try the diet Gwyneth Paltrow, Jennifer Aniston and Elle Macpherson swear by? We examine the alkaline diet, which foods are best and how it helps your overall health.
Beat Cravings With These Foods
These foods can curb your appetite for longer stretches and keep the munchies at bay so that you don’t resort to that 990 calorie frozen mocha latte.
Cook Veggies Like A Top Chef
We turned to two vegetable experts—Deborah Madison and Neal Harden—to find out how to make some of the healthiest vegetables even better.
Sound Bites: Is Cheese Addiction Real, the Healthiest Cities, & Fasting Before Exercise
This week’s latest health news is surprising—check out what you need to know to maintain a healthy diet.
5 Celebrities Reveal: My Mom’s Best Health Tip
You’re never too old for advice from your mom, especially if she’s Tamera’s mom
Healthy Stir-Fry
This recipe is Devin Burke’s favorite Springtime dinner because it’s healthy, simple to make, and tastes amazing.
Cauliflower Alfredo Sauce With Zucchini Noodles
Cauliflower Alfredo Sauce is blended up in seconds and makes a versatile non-dairy sauce for noodles, rice, veggies and more.
Roasted Jerusalem Artichokes & Brussels Sprout Leaves
You’ll be surprised how tasty Brussels Sprouts leaves are on their own when separated from their heads. Try this awesome winter salad soon!
Weekend Menu Hacks: Quick Pickled Veggies & Grilled Raspberry Chicken
Cool down and chill out with this late summer menu
Here are some quick menu hacks with chicken and veggies to get lunch or dinner on the table in super quick and super cool ways.
12 Grilled Veggies We Love From Instagram
Make your veggies go Insta-great with these inspired grilling ideas
While burgers and pizzas are great on the grill, nothing tastes more of summer—and the grill—than cooking vegetables atop a fiery flame.
10 Best Bang-for-Your-Bite Veggies
These nutrient-dense vegetables are the plant-world's multi-taskers
Eating nutrient-dense foods is an efficient way to fill up on your daily As and Cs, but some foods pack more vitamins and minerals than others.
Nightshade Napoleons
This gluten-free, all-veggie “lasagna” uses thin slices of marinated raw zucchini instead of pasta to separate its slow-cooked, tender layers of grilled eggplant and grape tomatoes with rich and creamy Burrata. Serve at room temperature as a main course with grilled bread or as an appetizer before a very light dinner.
4 Tricks For Keeping Greens Fresh
Simple tricks to make lettuce, kale, and other greens last longer
You went to the farmer’s market and bought bunches and bunches of fresh greens. Then you tossed them in the fridge and…
Eat This Now: Radicchio
The new Love & Lemons Cookbook fires us up with a Balsamic Grilled Radicchio Salad
Jeanine Donofrio’s new release, The Love & Lemons Cookbook: An Apple-to-Zucchini Celebration of Impromptu Cooking ($35) has enough punchy graphics, fresh food photos and creative recipes to give your familiar routine a major spark of inspiration.
5 ways to use the stalks—and all go beyond pie
It looks weird, it has weird rules (don’t eat the leaves!), it even sounds weird: Rhubarb…
Braised Baby Artichokes
This recipe is from The Clean Plates Cookbook ($17; Running Press) by Jared Koch with Jill Silverman Hough.
Remarkable Root
This once unloved, ignored root is now ready for its close-up
The root vegetable burdock, or gobo, has an earthy flavor similar to mushrooms, and a stellar nutrition profile. Try burdock in an easy, nutritious sautee.
Hudson Valley Harvest puts peas, tomatoes and more in a deep freeze
Chefs, they’re just like us. Some of New Yorks best culinary minds—including those behind Clean Plates-favorites…
Veggies, On Fleek
In Michael Anthony's new cookbook, vegetables receive star-chef status
When was the last time your mouth started to water just from looking at a Jerusalem artichoke…
An organic southeast Asian opens in Pasadena's Old Town for rave reviews
Green Zone is putting a healthy spin on your favorite Asian foods.
Broccoli leaves deserve a star turn in your kitchen--not the compost pile; here's why...
Did you know that about 40% of food in the United States goes uneaten? If you measure that amount…
Hungryroot makes it easy to satisfy noodle cravings and get your vegetable servings in
We love noodles. We love vegetables. Simple math told us that we were really going to love…
Nothing's better than A Girl and Her Greens
Chef April Bloomfield is just as talented with vegetables as meats…
Growing Pains
Videos tell the story of going from farm to fork
Have you been taking your food for granted? Signs of a failure of appreciation could include lobbing heads of cauliflower…
Chef Franklin Becker of The Little Beet shares his recipe for blistered broccoli
The road to wellness has been a winding one for chef Franklin Becker. Stops on his personal highway included…
The surprising versatility of veggies
We love this new line of vegetable yogurts created by chef Dan Barber and his team at New York’s Blue Hill restaurants…
Pink is for eating your way to health, not just ribbons. You can fight breast cancer by choosing these pink foods.
The Foods You Should Buy Organic…to Avoid Obesogens
The name may be funny but the facts are not
Could chemicals called “obesogens” be making you fat? Find out which healthy foods contain them, and how to steer clear…
Thanksgiving Sides Series: Roasted Roots Recipe
This classic side dish is perfect for any holiday feast
Clean Plates is delighted to offer our readers a scrumptious series of healthful, delicious and nutritious side dishes for Thanksgiving, ideal for contributing to the holiday table or combining for a luscious, plant-based meal.
Thanksgiving Sides Series: Start with Soup
This curried carrot and sweet potato soup is healthy and hearty
Clean Plates is delighted to offer our readers a scrumptious series of healthful, delicious and nutritious side dishes for Thanksgiving, ideal for contributing to the holiday table or combining for a luscious, plant-based meal.
The Best of Spring’s Super Greens
These vital veggies are a welcome boost to any diet
Farmers markets across the country are bursting with artichokes, asparagus, arugula, watercress and spring onions. These vegetables cleanse and prepare our bodies for warmer temperatures…
Tips for a Healthy Vegetarian Easter
Amp your dishes up with high quality ingredients like organic produce and nutrient-rich grains
Enjoy this vegetarian Easter menu packed with nutritious ingredients like spring peas, asparagus, fresh herbs, squash, farro, spelt and organic dark chocolate…